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This work considers the study of settlement evaluated by ANAM and OIMT in 1994 during the Project Mangrove (ANAM, 2009; CONFOREC, 2007), as part of the Investigation of Management, Conservation and Development of the Mangrove (Diagnostic Social and Economical of Benefits from Mangrove in Chame). With this background, the data is compiled from National Census to determinate socioeconomic basis of the selected communities. Additionally, 43 surveys were conducted and over 30 interviews with users of the mangrove (woodcutters, colliers, fishermen and crabbers) of the communities of: Sajalices, El Espavé, y La Cresta, ANAM’s staff, CEDESAN’s members and mangrove product’s dealers.
There are multiple benefits of mangroves ((Lugo and Snedaker, 1974), that this work aims to know the extractive human activities of the Chame Mangrove, for this it is carried out through a survey in 2011 in three (3) villages of the district of Chame. Where it was found that the communities make extractive activities of the Chame Mangrove as a complement to their income and do not depend directly as an economic means.